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Deeper Dive: Preserving Ephemeral Messaging — Capture Data Before Its Ghosts Haunt Your Compliance

This article considers how an organization might consider handling information generally, through the lens of a specifically troubling subset of information: ephemeral messages.

5 minute read November 01, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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James Sherer, Brittany Yantis and Luke Record
Deeper Dive: Preserving Ephemeral Messaging — Capture Data Before Its Ghosts Haunt Your Compliance

Organizations whose mantra is "We just never delete anything" (i.e., organizations simply retaining all information indefinitely) are now facing headwinds, especially when the information contains personal information.

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